] Whatever founder mode consists of, it's pretty clear that it's going to break the principle that the CEO should engage with the company only via his or her direct reports. "Skip-level" meetings will become the norm instead of a practice so unusual that there's a name for it. And once you abandon that constraint there are a huge number of permutations to choose from. For example, Steve Jobs used to run an annual retreat for what he considered the 100 most important people at Apple, and these were not the 100 people highest on the org chart. Can you imagine the force of will it would take to do this at the average company? And yet imagine how useful such a thing could be. It could make a big company feel like a startup. Steve presumably wouldn't have kept having these retreats if they didn't work. But I've never heard of another company doing this. So is it a good idea, or a bad one? We still don't know. That's how little we know about founder mode. ] Obviously founders can't keep running a 2000 person company the way they ran it when it had 20. There's going to have to be some amount of delegation. Where the borders of autonomy end up, and how sharp they are, will probably vary from company to company. They'll even vary from time to time within the same company, as managers earn trust. So founder mode will be more complicated than manager mode. But it will also work better. We already know that from the examples of individual founders groping their way toward it. Indeed, another prediction I'll make about founder mode is that once we figure out what it is, we'll find that a number of individual founders were already most of the way there — except that in doing what they did they were regarded by many as eccentric or worse. ] Curiously enough it's an encouraging thought that we still know so little about founder mode. Look at what founders have achieved already, and yet they've achieved this against a headwind of bad advice. Imagine what they'll do once we can tell them how to run their companies like Steve Jobs instead of John Sculley. [ ] The more diplomatic way of phrasing this statement would be to say that experienced C-level execs are often very skilled at managing up. And I don't think anyone with knowledge of this world would dispute that. [ ] If the practice of having such retreats became so widespread that even mature companies dominated by politics started to do it, we could quantify the senescence of companies by the average depth on the org chart of those invited. [ ] I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it. Founders who are unable to delegate even things they should will use founder mode as the excuse. Or managers who aren't founders will decide they should try to act like founders. That may even work, to some extent, but the results will be messy when it doesn't; the modular approach does at least limit the damage a bad CEO can do. to Brian Chesky, Patrick Collison, Ron Conway, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ryan Petersen, Harj Taggar, and Garry Tan for reading drafts of this. |
As you read and search, keep track of the vocabulary you encounter.
Terms and definitions vary by field. You will likely find your repertoire of key words expanding as you get deeper into your search. Keep track of synonyms, technical vocabulary, discipline specific terms--they often come in handy, particularly if, as sometimes happens in this course, you go on to do more advanced research on the topic in future classes.
For example:
This document suggests a good method of crafting effective keyword searches:
uses a combination of terms to search an online database. A Boolean search can either expand or narrow the results of your search. It is a kind of set theory. This kind of searching is going on behind the scenes to some extent in almost any website or database you search whether you know you are doing it or not. When you type a series of words such as pets dogs hounds terriers poodles It is most likely interpreted at the site as A database would interpret this as needing to include It might be a very narrow search. You might really mean:
Pets becomes set one and (hounds OR terriers OR poodles) is set two. In this case the database will look for every article that has the word pets in it, and create a second set that inlcudes all articles that mention either hounds or terriers or poodles. it will find where these two sets overlap. You should only receive articles that mention hounds, terriers, or poodles as pets."AND" always narrows a search, "OR" always broadens it. You can also use "NOT" to narrow a search further. AND OR and NOT are also referred to as "operators."
pets AND (Hounds OR terriers OR poodles) NOT cats "NOT cats" becomes set three. Now the overlap will only include articles that DO NOT include the term cats. This is a visulation--the area of the circles that overlap will be your results.
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You can truncate your terms using an asterick * (Some databases may use a ? or another symbol, but * is the most common) dog* (will also retrieve dogs, doggy, doggerel) exist* (existent, existing, existence) Think about your truncations before you truncate: Rom* could be romance, rome, roman, romany, romantic, romperroom, and so on ... too many words too different one from the other to be useful. It might be better to type (rome OR roman) or (romance OR romantic) or ("romance literature" OR "romance language")
when searching an exact phrase, such as the title to an article or book, or two words that you always want together place them within quotation marks:
Facets are options at most databases to narrow your search further. You may see: Franklin Catalog and Articles + both have date ranges along the left hand column |
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